19th May 2019 - Andrew

We both sleep late and wake up groggy and sore. After coffee we take a little walk around the town and get some overpriced breakfast / lunch with a great view. This includes some great champagne cocktails which is the best of it. We look around the town a bit - all very tight and dripping wealth - it seems like every second shop is selling high end jewellery. We buy great ice cream!

Back at our room we book four more nights on Santorini at the more traditional Oia village. We try to plan forward a bot but decide to sleep instead - planning is so complex! After a bit of sleep I feel much better and I go to organise a hire car. With that in place we relax and head off to see the town a bit on this early Saturday evening with a high end fine dining experience planned for sunset.

We stop to do a wine tasting overlooking the Caldera - 6 glasses and nice cheese:

  • The beautiful whites (local varietals) that we had tasted in Athens
  • Thick but not too sweet desert wines - one white aged to the colour of deep amber.
  • Interesting very light red full of plum flavours.
19th May 2019 - Cara

Wonderful ice cream. The ice cream place is on Gold Street (appropriate for Fira) - it has loads of interesting flavours like olive, Vinsanto (Sweet wine - literally means ‘Wine of Santorini’ and comes from Ancient times), Millefeuille, halva. Each tub is beautifully decorated with something resembling it’s contents eg strawberry has a large fake strawberry, vinsanto has a bottle etc. There are also more Normal flavours like Pomegranate (the best of the lot), Mango, salted caramel, bitter chocolate, pistachio (also spectacular). I have pomegranate, vinsanto and halva today - and later in the trip have Pistacio, strawberry and salted caramel.

Wine tasting overlooking the Caldera: Beautiful wines and a lovely server. They come with descriptions and a plate of skewers (Feta and yellow cheese) , olives, tomatoes and bread sticks. The barley bread of Greece and islands is omnipresent. It can be hard and is delicious. The tasting is opposite the restaurant - both are looking into a square of Fira - perhaps the only one which has lots of space.

18th May 2019